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Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 10:33:31 +0200

> By the way, any chance we can have a variable or an accessor function
> that would return what the current WM identifies as?

I started to look into this but with meager results so far.  From what I
read on the Web there's no standardized approach to find that out.

> Emacs might not want to alter its behavior based on that for now, but
> third-party packages (such as posframe) can experiment with that in
> the meantime.

I'd urgently need it for Bug#38452.

> And also, what's the best way to detect which toolkit was Emacs
> compiled with? Only look for 'gtk3' substring in
> system-configuration-options?

It might not be there when the default is used.  It's hidden somewhere
behind C-h C-a.

martin



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